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GOOD NEWS FOR WOMEN.

A new study shows that women working side by side with men for the same amount of hours earn the same amount of money. This is good news for women and bad news for women’s advocates that are running out of things to advocate. The study shows that women that earn less do so because they tend to enter and exit the workforce because of children. Women that stay in the work force, earn the same as men. It also says that women with children sometimes trade pay for more flexibility in their schedules.

Don’t underestimate the women’s advocates, though, they still offer two gems of oppression.

"Are they really making choices if there is no child care, or if school ends at 3 p.m. and they have no place for their child?" asked Heidi Hartmann, an economist and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, D.C.

Heidi Hartmann makes it sound like children just happen to women with no choice on their part. I’m sure most women know that school lets out at 3pm before they have kids. They went to school too, remember?

She and others want to know why fields dominated by women pay less, on average, than fields dominated by men. "Are they choosing to be a nurse when they expressed an interest in engineering in high school but the mechanical engineer teacher was a sexist pig and didn't want her?

There is always a villain isn’t there? And I don’t remember having a mechanical engineering class in high school. Did anybody have that choice at their high school? Heidi probably went to some sort of prep school that offered everything. It allowed her to work for a big think tank in Washington. Maybe Heidi should do a study about how she had all the opportunities, while public school kids only get to blog.